Official sales
Starting in November, AvtoVAZ will begin selling Lada Vesta sedans and station wagons in the new Sportline configuration. The model was equipped with a 1.6 engine (118 hp) and manual transmission, the original body kit, ground clearance was reduced and the suspension was retuned.
The Moskvich 6 liftback, also known as the Chinese JAC Sehol A5 Plus, will be available in October. At prices ranging from 2.6 to 2.8 million rubles, Russians will be offered cars with a 136-horsepower 1.5-liter turbo engine paired with a CVT. The most expensive version will cost 3 million rubles, it already has a 174-horsepower engine and a robot of 7 DCT.
The Great Wall concern will start selling electric vehicles under the Ora subbrand in the fall. The first to hit the market will be the Ora 03 compact hatchback, offered in two trim options: standard version and sports GT. It is stated that the range of the electric car can be up to 500 km on a single battery charge. Prices of the vehicles have not been announced yet.
Some Ora models are named after cats: Good Cat, Ballet Cat and Lightning Cat.
Towards the end of autumn, Chery will present two new hybrid products at once: the Tiggo 7 Pro e+, equipped with a 326-horsepower unit based on the 1.5-liter engine, and the second is the updated Tiggo 8 Pro e+. It has a different grille and a redesigned interior, as well as a larger capacity traction battery.
The lineup of the Livan brand, presented in the Russian Federation with an X3 Pro crossover, was recently replenished with the S6 Pro sedan (2.5 million rubles) and the X6 Pro SUV (2.6 million rubles). At the same time, Geely launched sales of the second-generation Coolray crossover; in the basic configuration its cost is 2.6 million rubles.
The Coolray model is among the top five best-selling cars in Russia this year.
Motorinvest, which produces Evolute electric cars and imports Voyah brand cars (both are Dongfeng cars without any modifications), has also prepared two new models. The first of these is the Evolute i-Jet electric crossover with 646 hp. With a power reserve of up to 530 km. The second is a new modification of the Voyah Dream minivan called First. This is so far the only four-seater minivan officially available in the Russian Federation. Prices have not been announced yet.
Foton company, which sells commercial vehicles in Russia, launched its first passenger model, the four-wheel drive diesel pickup truck Tunland G7. Dealers offer them in the maximum configuration at a price of 4.1 million rubles. Finally, the Haima brand returns to the Russian Federation this fall with the 8S crossover (3.2 million rubles) and the 7X minivan (3.6 million rubles).
parallel import
Ilya Petrov, retail sales manager of the Avilon dealer holding, told socialbites.ca in October that one of the new products of parallel imports is the Rising F7 electric car worth 5.9 million rubles.
Soaring F7 – premium all-wheel drive liftback with 544 hp. From China’s SAIC concern. The front panel of the electric car has three screens with a total diagonal of 43 inches.
“We also expect the new products Zeekr X and Lixiang L7 to arrive soon. “We anticipate that demand for these models will be good,” said the source.
Among the cars that are not officially supplied to Russia, Tank 400 hybrid SUVs are new. In advertisements on classified websites, dealers are asking for Tank 400 at 5.3 million rubles and MG 5 sedans at 2.4 million rubles.
According to Ilya Petrov from Avilon, seasonal trends are now observed in the car market – buyers pay attention to all-wheel drive models, crossovers, especially “hot options”.
“And of course one of the current trends in the industry right now is the increase in car prices. “We expect a new increase in prices in all segments by the end of the year,” the source warned.
According to Vladimir Zhelobov, director of parallel imports of the Avtodom and AvtoSpetsTsentr group of companies, new electric cars and hybrid cars Zeekr, BYD and Li appeared in car dealerships in October.
“There is a clear trend in parallel import deliveries; The main flow of cars comes from China, not Europe. “The reason for this is the high exchange rate of the dollar and the euro against the ruble,” he said.
A blow to “gray” consumables
If for a year and a half there was a tendency to replace car brands leaving the Russian Federation with Chinese ones, in the last few months the situation has stabilized and now the share of cars from China remains at the level of 50 -60%, says Sergei Tselikov, general director of the analytical agency Autostat.
According to him, the rate of automobile imports is decreasing through parallel imports,
It was affected by restrictions on the supply of Chinese cars from October 1. The expert noted that the Ministry of Industry and Trade banned a similar car supply plan due to concerns about not leaving Russia and continuing to officially import cars.
“The majority of cars were imported via parallel imports in July, before the high recycling fee was introduced. Changes that took place on October 1 have led to it becoming less profitable to import cars under this program, so this channel is drying up.
While the share of alternative imports reached 15% earlier this year, this rate reached 11% in September.
and will continue to decline in the future,” Tselikov thinks.
More than half of the Russian market (about 60%) belongs to the SUV segment (crossovers and SUVs). At the same time, Russians began to buy more electric cars: while the market share of electric cars in the first half of the year was 1%, now it exceeds 1.5% and may increase to 2 by the end of the year. % noted.
As for car prices, they will remain at the current level, subject to a stable exchange rate, until the end of 2023; the main changes have already occurred after the change in the recycling fee rate on August 1 and the fall of the ruble. says the source.
“We have been monitoring prices for 20 years and prices have been increasing all this time. Now the real growth has already occurred, if the ruble remains at the level of 90-100 rubles per dollar, then significant price changes should not be expected until the end of the year,” Tselikov believes.